Potato-digger



No Model 'S. HUBER.

POTATO BIGGER.

Patented Mar, 10

Mb. E S S E N T I W INVENTOR ATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL HUBER, OF DANVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA.

POTATO- DIGGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 313,670, dated March 1.0, 1885.

Application filed September 17, 1*84. (X0 model.)

T0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL HUBER, of Danville, in the county of Montour and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and Improved Potato-Digger, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of my new and improved potato-digger. Fig. 2 is a bottom view of the same, and Fig. 3 is a rear elevation of the potato-digger without the handles.

The invention will first be described in connection with the drawings and then pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the drawings, Arepresents the beam of the plow formed with the standard B, to which latter are secured the side pieces, B B.

Secured to the side pieces, B B,'are the shares 0 0, formed with the point D and rearwardly and upward projecting fingers E E. The outer corners, F, of the shares 0 are upwardly curved, as shown clearly in Figs. 1 and 3, for steadying the potato-digger in the ground and for preventing the plow from leaving the ground in turning. Upon the under surfaces the shares 0 are formed with the sharp lugs G, which run in the ground, and also serve to steady the plow, preventing all tendency of the plow to have a side movement. The standard B is formed with the heel-piece H, to the under surface of which is secured by the bolt a the shoe I, which is grooved upon its under surface, as shown in the drawings, for steadying the heel of the plow, so that it will not have a tendency to side movement.

The side plates, B B, to which the shares G are secured, are braced from the standard B by the braces K K, (shown in Figs. 2 and 3,) to strengthen and give solidity and firmness to the plow.

The loops L L, which hold the handles M, are by preference cast with the beam A ready to receive the handles M without extra fitting.

Constructed as described,the digger is made very light and strong, and, owing to the curves -F, lugs G, and shoe I, runs very steady in the ground, and is easy to hold, and the digger is very cheap and durable.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a pOtatodigger, the standard having the side plates braced to a central shoe, in combination with the shares secured to said side plates, and having lugs upon their lower sides and upwardly-curved rear corners, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The potato-digger herein shown and described, having the shares curved at F, and formed with the lugs G, in combination with the heel H, having the grooved shoe I secured to it, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

SAMUEL HUBER.

Witnesses:

ROBERT ADAMS, E. W. CONKLING. 

